A little brag.

Please humour me.I just want to have a tiny little brag about Annie.

This morning,I was getting ready to take Annie to daycare when she suddenly announced that she wanted to take a clothes hanger with her.I asked why and she said that her teacher had asked her to.I thought this rather odd as the teachers will always tell the parents as well at the children if they want us to bring anything special.But Annie was insistent and she picked her hanger.I put it in her bag and off we went.

On arrival,we went in and I pulled out the hanger as Annie rushed off inside to find Akane-chan.I was a wee bit embarrassed to be wielding the thing and asked her teacher about it.The reaction was electric." How did you know about the hangers?" she gasped.I explained that Annie had told me they were needed,and the teacher called Annie's other teacher over to tell her.It seems that the day before at going home time,the children had been asked to bring in a wire clothes hanger the next day so that they could make bubbles.As they had some already in the classroom and only needed a few more ,they decided to just tell the children and see who managed to tell their parents.The youngest in the class are Annie's age group so all 3.The oldest are 5 or 6.And the teachers have done this kind of thing before,it seems, many many times and over the years,it is only the older children who have managed to relay the message.Until today.And my little girl was the first ever 3 year old to ever manage to remember to pass on such a message.

Ironically,the teachers are all very aware of Annie's slight weakness in Japanese,although I have assured them on numerous occasions that she understands every word and just doesn't want to speak much.So today they were able to see for their own eyes that Annie may not be very talkative at daycare but she knows exactly what's going on.

She showed 'em alright:)